J. B. Priestley - реферат по прочим предметам
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- Priestley was born in what he described as an "ultra-respectable" suburb of Bradford.
- After his military service Priestley received a university education at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
- Priestley himself, however, was distrustful of the state and dogma.
- His father was a teacher and his mother died young.
- He was to draw on memories of Bradford in many of the works he wrote after he had moved south.
- He was wounded in 1916 by mortar fire.
- By the age of 30 he had established a reputation as a humorous writer and critic.
- His 1927 novel Benighted was adapted into the James Whale film The Old Dark House in 1932.
- His next novel Angel Pavement (1930) further established him as a successful novelist.
- He moved into a new genre and became as well known as a dramatist.
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